Alfred Freyberg (12 July 1892 – 18 April 1945) was a German lawyer, Nazi Party politician and SS-Gruppenführer who served as the Ministerpräsident of the Free State of Anhalt from 1932 to 1940 and the Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig from 1939 to 1945.

Between 1918 and 1922 he worked as a Referendar (legal apprentice) in Wernigerode, Halberstadt and Naumburg and passed the final state law examination in Berlin in 1922.

[1] Freyberg joined the Nazi Party in Quedlinburg on 27 May 1925 (membership number 5,880) and founded the Ortsgruppe (Local Group) there, which he led until 1927 as Ortsgruppenleiter.

Following the Nazi seizure of power, Freyberg served as the sole Minister of State in Anhalt from April 1933 to January 1940.

[2] On 29 March 1936, he was elected as a Reichstag deputy from electoral constituency 10 (Magdeburg), was reelected on 10 April 1938 and served until his death.

[6] Freyberg was a committed anti-Semite and his administration pursued policies of discrimination, exploitation and, ultimately, expulsion of Jews from Leipzig to the Auschwitz death camp.